Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005750Sketch for "Siege of Gibraltar"
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: J.S. Copley / Sketch Siege of Gib; upper left, in graphite: 7193 in circle; lower right, in graphite: 24
Provenance
Lord Aberdare (direct descendant of artist). Sold by Thomas Agnew, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, February 16, 1968.
Exhibition history
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, John Singleton Copley, 1966. AIC, Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings, Dec. 11, 1998– Mar. 28, 1999, checklist 39. The Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 78, cat. 49 (ill.).
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 78, cat. 49 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Singleton Copley / American, 1738-1815
- Date
- 1785–89
- Medium
- Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 32.9 × 25.2 cm (13 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.121
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